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	<td><p>To add doors, windows or furniture to your home, drag and drop them one by one from the catalog to the home plan or  furniture list. </p>
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	  <p align="left">You may also select one or more pieces in the catalog, then choose <i>Furniture &gt; Add to home</i> or click
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	    <i>Add to home</i> tool.</p>
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	    <p align="left"><img src="../images/addToHomeTool.png" alt="Add to home tool" width="24" height="24" align="absmiddle">&nbsp;<i>Add
	      to home</i> tool</p>
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	  <p align="left">When pieces are dropped in furniture list or added with the <i>Furniture &gt; Add to home</i> menu item, the
	    location of their top left corner is at the point (0, 0).<br>
          When a piece is dropped in the plan, its location and orientation depends on the location of the walls close to the piece. If the dropped piece is a door or a window, it will be automatically 
          rotated and resized according to the orientation and the thickness of 
          the wall it intersects. Other kinds of pieces will be rotated to make their back face lie along the closest wall it could intersect.</p>
<p align="left">The pieces added to home are selected and  drawn simultaneously in furniture list, in the plan and in
	          the 3D view. During the loading time of the 3D model of added pieces, these pieces are represented as a white
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              <p>If the catalog doesn't contain the piece of furniture  you want to add to your home, choose
                 the <i>Box</i> piece
                in the <i>Miscellaneous</i>                category
                and resize it, or <a href="importingFurniture.html">import</a> it
                from an other furniture library.</p>
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              <p>A piece of furniture qualified as a door or a window indicates to Sweet Home 3D to automatically make holes
                in walls at the intersection location with doors or windows. Similarly, a staircase is able to make a hole in the ceiling and the floor of upper levels. This computation isn't made for the other kinds
              of furniture. </td>
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              <p>If a piece of furniture is dropped on an other one, it will be 
                  elevated to appear on the top of the latter, when its selection 
                  rectangle is included in the one of the latter and its default 
                  elevation is equal to zero (i.e. at floor level). If the border of the dropped piece intersects the border of an other piece, the dropped piece will be oriented with the same angle and positioned along the border of that piece.</td>
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              <p>The angle, the depth and the elevation of the  piece added with the mouse are automatically computed only if  magnetism
                is enabled in <a href="editingPreferences.html">preferences</a> panel.</p>
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              <p>Once a piece is added to home, you may <a href="editingFurniture.html">change</a> 
                  its name, its angle, its location, its size, its color and its texture. You 
                  may also group it with other pieces of furniture by selecting 
                  them and choosing the <i>Furniture &gt; Group</i> menu item. If you want to add 
                  a piece to an existing group of furniture, select the target group and choose 
              <i>Furniture &gt; Add to group</i> menu item.</p></td>
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              <td> <p>Choose <i>Plan &gt; Zoom in</i> or <i>Plan &gt; Zoom out</i> 
                  to change the plan scale, or roll the mouse wheel forward or 
                  backward while keeping the <i>ctrl</i> key pressed (or under 
                  Mac OS X, the <i>cmd</i> key pressed). </td>
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              <p><i><a href="drawingWalls.html">Select</a></i><a href="drawingWalls.html"> tool</a> is automatically selected
                once you added a piece of furniture to home.</p>
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